Sold Out of Date Food

Mark_Hewitt

michaelvintner wrote: »

I was in a bar once with some friends. We ordered 4 bottles of Budweiser (or something like that). Tasted fine, drunk it but for some reason I looked at the date on the bottle and it was out of date.

Anyway told bar staff and get 4 new bottles of in date bud for nothing......result.

Pubs often do that. Buy bottles of beer which are close to their sell-by date. Apparently Wetherspoons does that a lot. Buys up in bulk drinks which are about to go out of date, then since they have a large network and know how much they are going to sell, they can shift them before the sell by date. Suppliers get rid of nearly of of date stock and Wetherspoons customers get cheap drinks.

Welshwoofs

There is a lot of room in sell-by dates simply in order to avoid action being taken by stores by people eating food on or very closely over the sell-by, getting food poisoning and suing.

I regularly eat things which are weeks over the sell-by (especially yogurts).

lynzpower

OnceUponADream wrote: »

I am awful at binning 'out of date' produce and often wonder why I do it!

Does a slice of turkey wake up on the 29/09/2008 and say "jolly good I haven't been eaten and I am now off . I bin purely because the date tells me to:eek:. I am now not going to - well try not too:o.

However, to the OP I would accept the refund - mistakes happen.

I remember being in M&S and found a food item (I check dates and pick from the back were possible) that was out of date by 2 days - when I went to the checkout I informed the cashier that and item on the shelf was 2 days pasted the sell by date before (hopefully) someone else purchased it.

No,. there is a huge difference between best before - means its fine to eat after that date, might have lost some flavour or texture but wont make you ill. ( eg biscuits)

A USE BY means that you should be using it by this stage. Given the fact that thischicken was probably slaughtered at least a month ago, IT ISNT SAFE.

Dont give food like this that is past its use by date to expectant mothers after all this can cause miscarriage.

Just dont eat it. Lots of food dont smell off as they have been treated with chemicals to prevent visual deterioratiuon or have had colourings added ( eg mince) or are packed in special gases.

I would let EH know TBH. I think tesco will hurt more from a EHO investigation than giving you your £2 back.

Pink_fluff

Short-n-Sweet wrote: »

Im unsure what to do, i did call the local shop which i brought it from and was offered a "refund" right now i am to angry to think thats acceptable (you might think im over reacting or being greedy) but a refund will not satisfy me. Im not usually a fussy customer

What do you expect Tesco do do apart from refund you the cost of the chicken?

What are you expecting out of this?

Amanita_2

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I regularly eat things which are weeks over the sell-by (especially yogurts).

Yes me too. A decent brie or camembert is generally not even properly ripe by its use-by date!

tbw

I think you are right to be concerned - stuff like brie or yoghurts are meant to be 'ripe' so a little extra ripeness will do no harm. Things like chicken, fish and fresh mince are much more of a possible health hazard and, while I wouldn't throw stuff out if it was just a day or so over, I certainly wouldn't touch stuff that was a couple of weeks over!

Mistakes do happen and I doubt Tesco will keep you in Sunday lunches for weeks as compensation - but they should give you a full refund and a fresh pack of chicken. My local store always does this - they told me it was Tesco policy so I assume its supposed to happen everywhere.

Blacksheep1979

surely you weren't 'sold' them - you selected and bought them...